Submitted in response to Visual Venturing’s One Photo Focus for August. The original photograph was created by Robin at photographybykent. Edited by Brenda Kofford.
As I began my editing of Robin’s raw image in Capture One, I also applied a keystone adjustment to the ferris wheel before cropping and moving into ON 1 Enhance Effects and then Color Efex Pro 2. While in Color Efex, I played around with their Detail Extractor, Tonal Contrast, Vintage, and Sunlight layers before ending with Polaroid Transfer to give it a holiday souvenir touch. I then finished the image with Photoshop’s dodging tool to lightly bring out the reflections in the water.
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Wonderful image.
thanks Jeff
Unique tones that give it a pop!
thank you Laura…and especially thanks for sharing your editing process
You’re so welcome! On both counts. 😉
Love the golden tones in the reflections – they bring the image to life.
Marie
Thank you Marie
Nicely done, Brenda. I particularly like the brightness of the water. Great counterpoint to the ominous sky. I use ColorEfex Pro quite a bit, but haven’t tried a number of the filters you used. I must do some experimenting 🙂
Thank you Stacy…it’s great fun to simply play around with the various filters
It looks wonderful–like an old postcard
Thank you…the goal I had in mind
Great job, Brenda. The reflections on the water are particularly well done and Ireally like the idea of a Polaroid transfer.
thank you…I’m looking forward to seeing what images you bring back from the Arctic. Oh…slightly green is my complexion.